IS THIS NOT KILLING? MASS MURDER? MODERN DAY POLAND AND AUSWITZ?
READ THIS ARTICLE AND YOU WILL KNOW IT IS TOTALIANISM!

Amid a grove of poplar trees in a village just north of here, a grave was unearthed Thursday afternoon. Out came the body of a man, shot dead nearly two months ago, whom the Indian police described at the time as an anti-Indian militant from Pakistan.


The New York Times
The police are examining five bodies buried near Sumbal.
An elderly man, who had been searching for his missing son for nearly two months, was summoned for the exhumation. He stared at the horror dug out of the ground and told the police what he had refused to believe all this time. “He is my son,” he said. Then he sat on the bare ground and shook.
As it turned out, the dead man, Abdul Rehman Paddar, was not a Pakistani at all, nor a militant. He was a Kashmiri carpenter from a village south of here. The Indian police are now investigating whether he was killed by some of their own men, for motives that could range from personal revenge to greed. A suspected militant’s body, after all, comes with a handsome cash reward. By Saturday, four police officers were under arrest in connection with Mr. Paddar’s killing.
S. M. Sahai, the chief of police for Kashmir, said his investigators were looking into whether at least two other bodies were part of the same ring; setups like the killing of Mr. Paddar are known here as “encounter killings.” Each of the victims had been killed in operations conducted jointly by the police and either an Indian Army unit or a paramilitary force that operates under army command, he said.
By the end of the day on Saturday, as the investigation snowballed, a total of five bodies had been exhumed, all in the area surrounding Sumbal, and their identities were being checked.
The exhumations have not only unearthed a deep well of resentment among the people of Indian-administered Kashmir, but have also forced the Indian government to face anew long-simmering charges of abuse by Indian soldiers and the police.
Kashmiris have long accused the Indian authorities of disappearances and extrajudicial killings; one local human rights group estimates that 10,000 people have disappeared since the anti-Indian insurgency began here in 1989. Nor have civilians been immune to the savagery of militants; beheadings are among their favored tactics.
India blames its rival and neighbor, Pakistan, for aiding and arming the insurgents. Pakistan denies the charge, and does not recognize India’s claim to Kashmir. Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a center of strife for nearly 60 years.
While the violence has calmed considerably since a 2004 peace deal between India and Pakistan, it has hardly ended the bloodshed or diminished the presence of Indian troops here. India says troop reduction can begin only when the militants lay down their weapons.
Those troops have been blamed repeatedly for human rights abuses here, most recently by a 156-page report released last October by Human Rights Watch, which detailed dozens of cases in which, it said, the state had failed to hold its security forces accountable for suspected abductions, killings and detentions.
Among the most infamous of those cases were the March 2000 killings in the southern village of Pathirabal of five men, whom the army identified as foreign terrorists responsible for a massacre of Sikh civilians. The men, whose bodies had been burned and badly mutilated, turned out to be civilians abducted by the army, according to relatives and a subsequent federal investigation.
In a rare instance of prosecution, five Indian soldiers were charged with the killings, but the case remains stuck in the courts nearly seven years later, and the accused remain on the job. The army insists that they be tried by an internal court martial, and not a civilian court.
Human Rights Watch blamed the Indian government for what it called its “lack of commitment” to accountability and a series of Indian laws that shield soldiers in conflict zones like Kashmir. “This has led to a serious climate of impunity,” the report concluded.
Indian officials have explicitly sought to use the latest cases of encounter killings to rebut accusations of impunity, pointing out that they have taken the lead in investigating army and police officials linked to what they call isolated abuses of power.
“This is an aberration,” Mr. Sahai, the police chief, said in an interview in his office here in the summer capital of Indian-run Kashmir. “This is not the rule. We have not tried to suppress anything. Whatever are the facts of the case have come out in the open. If we are trying to set our house in order, that should increase public confidence

Genocide today may not be the obvious MArxist way but it is the TOTALITARIAN way... more like the USA way!

Has it really changed?

Genocide is generally defined as the intentional extermination of a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group. Compared with war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide is generally regarded as the most offensive crime. At worst, genocide pits neighbor against neighbor, or even husband against wife. Unlike war, where the attack is general and the object is often the control of a geographical or political region, genocide attacks an individual's identity, and the object is control -- or complete elimination -- of a group of people.

The history of genocide in the 20th century includes:
the 1915 genocide of Armenians by Turks;
the attempted extermination of European Jews by Nazis during World War II;
the widespread genocide in Cambodia during the 1970s;
the "ethnic cleansing"[1] in Kosovo by Serbs during the 1990s;

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The actual meaning of genocide

The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group.

Genocide - By : R.J. Rummel

I was just randomly surfing through the internet when I found a vey interseting document related to the topic that our blog discusses. I am providing the link below for those interested in knowing more about the details of genocide.

I hope the readers find it useful.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/GENOCIDE.ENCY.HTM

The Rwandan Genocide...Darkness in the history

The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus under the Hutu Power ideology. The genocide had its roots in the Hutu-Tutsi ethnic divide and related sporadic violence. Over the course of approximately 100 days, from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April up until mid July, at least 500,000 people were killed. Most estimates indicate a death toll between 800,000 and 1,000,000. Below are a few pictures showing the consequences of this Genocide..

A Social War in the Making...What does Genocide mean?

Genocide, in simple words, is any act which endangers a group of people or puts their existence in jeopardy. As per scholars, the most famous definition of Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The term "genocide" was coined by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959). Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

What is a Holocaust and When Did They Occur?

Read more: "What is a Holocaust and When Did They Occur? The Genocides of History that Have Been Forgotten"

http://militaryhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_a_holocaust_and_when_did_they_occur#ixzz0ApIJML1g

Sand and Sorrow…The War in Darfur

The War in Darfur is a conflict that is in the Darfur region of western Sudan. It started on 23rd February, 2003 and is continuing to date. The combination of decades of drought, desertification, and overpopulation are among the causes of the Darfur conflict. It is a humanitarian catastrophe and the status is credited to the start of the Civil war in Chad (2005-present) and the Central African Republican Bush War.
After the British defeat in 1916, Darfur was incorporated into Sudan. Since 2003 the region has been scene of fighting, with Sudanese government forces and their allied Arab militias (the janjaweed) battling non-Arab rebels linked to an opposition party, but the conflict has gradually widened to include fighting between allied groups on both sides, as both rebels and militias have splintered. Warfare also has spilled over into Chad, and Chadian rebels have based themselves in parts of Darfur. An estimated 50,000 persons have died in the fighting, and another 150,000 have died from disease, hunger, and other causes, and the government and janjaweed have been accused by some of genocide. Some 2.2 million people have been made refugees, and attempts to establish a cease-fire have produced only temporary results. An African Union (AU) peacekeeping force was established in the region beginning in Aug., 2004; the force, which officially became a joint UN-AU operation in Dec., 2007, has not been effective.
Below are a few pictures showing the consequences of this Genocide..

The Genocide Democrats - A pictorial glance… ***(parental guidance is advised)

“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” is a must-read!

Only recently I read a Book under the name of "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide” written by Samantha Power, a Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard. This book explores America's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War. The Writer observes that American policymakers have been consistently reluctant to condemn mass atrocities as genocide or take responsibility for leading an international military intervention. She argues that without significant pressure from the American public, policymakers avoid the term "genocide" altogether. Instead, they appeal to the priority of national interests or argue (without merit, she contends) that a U.S. response would be futile and accelerate violence as a justification for inaction.

I recommend this book to anyone and everyone interested in analyzing the almighty America`s role in Modern Day Genocides!

Injustice

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...whatever affects one directly, affects others indirectly.

Amidst Passiveness and Indifference

From religious fanatacism to terrorism, from judiciary's independence, to democracy... what is Pakistani society ready for? What is the need of the hour amongst so many issues?

Pakistan today is facing a number of problems which have come into the limelight all too soon. Many conspiracy theories or fallacies, often contradictory, have come into view. The recent terrorist attacks ranging from the attack on the Sri Lankan team, Swat's evolution and the attack on Taj Oberoi in Mumbai, India, all point in one direction. Hence, Pakistan today is facing the instability it has itself breeded for years. Its role in America's War against terror has warn the fruit of terrorism for the country. Moreover, the game of power being played by almost all the actors on the political front has left little room for development-economic, social, political.

What is needed today is perhaps not democracy, liberalization and privatiziation as the Washington Consensus Post very conveniently suggests. A third world country with an illiterate population of more than 50 percent, an exporting country with a competitive edge in almost no commodity is PERHAPS not ready for it.

For the realization of the solution, it is important that the true problem is identified. The problem lies not with the masses but with the educated elite of teh country. They are the most passive part of Pakistan for they have an opinion about everything but in reality put none of their views into practice. Pakistan needs more than just the LIP SERVICING of these ARM-CHAIR ANALYST. The true culprits, in my opinion, are not dictators or democrats or foreign actors but the elite of this country who have the previlige or luxuy of being a problem and yet be miles away from the consequences of the problem.